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Event: Mon 5 November 2012: Glebe, Sydney, NSW
Book Launch: A Decision to Discriminate
Aboriginal Disempowerment in the Northern Territory
To be launched by:
* Graeme Mundine, respected Aboriginal leader and
Executive Officer of Australian Catholic Ministry in Sydney
* Deni Langman, Traditional Owner from
Uluru in Central Australia
* Jeff McMullen AM, well known Journalist and
Indigenous advocate
"This new book is an important historical record
that focuses on the Senate Committee Inquiry
into the Stronger Futures legislation. It shows
how the Government decision-making process
chose to ignore the views and ideas expressed
by many Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory
communities in much the same way as has
happened since colonisation."
A 'concerned Australians' publication
Flyer: http://www.respectandlisten.org/uploads/downloads/ca/ADTD-flyer-final.pdf
Order Form: http://www.concernedaustralians.com.au/media/ADTD_Order_Form.pdf
Event details: http://www.concernedaustralians.com.au/
Event details: http://www.concernedaustralians.com.au/ADTD_booklaunches.html#Sydney
Event details: http://www.gleebooks.com.au/default.asp?p=events/2012/nov/Launch-A-Decis...
Event details: http://www.respectandlisten.org/
Event details: http://www.respectandlisten.org/uploads/downloads/ca/ADTD-All-Launches-f...
Event details: http://www.amnesty.org.au/nsw/event/30198/
Event details: http://indymedia.org.au/a-decision-to-discriminate-sydney-book-launch-5-...
Event details: http://www.greenleft.org.au/events/52643
Book review: http://overland.org.au/blogs/loudspeaker/2012/10/stronger-futures-and-ab...
gleebooks Homepage: http://www.gleebooks.com.au/default.asp
'concerned Australians' Homepage: http://www.concernedaustralians.com.au/
Event: Wed 7 to Sun 11 November 2012: Wollongong, NSW
Exhibition: Ghost Citizens: Witnessing the Intervention
Project Contemporary Artspace
"The word ‘intervention’ is popular in the art and
architecture worlds, but in this context it condemns
the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER),
Australia’s "national emergency" policy introduced in 2007.
This punitive policy is at odds with international human
rights conventions and the Racial Discrimination Act.
The exhibition Ghost Citizens: Witnessing the Intervention
looks at this return to protectionist colonial policy and
the wilful diminishing of an Indigenous participatory
voice: the loss of citizenship rights, of the right to
homelands and self-determination."
Event details: http://www.eventfinder.com.au/2012/ghost-citizens-witnessing-the-interve...
Event: Thu 8 - Sun 11 November 2012:
Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Fremantle
Dan Sultan Announces Indigenous Rights Concert Tour
"Last seen stepping in for Gurrumul after he
had to pull out November’s Gorgeous Festival,
Dan Sultan has announced a new series of
concerts to help raise awareness for
issues facing the Indigenous community.
The Music Network reports that the ARIA
Award-winning Gurindji performer has designed
the shows, called Rock For Recognition,
as helping promote the need for recognition of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait peoples in the
Australian Constitution."
Presented by ANTaR, Oxfam, Congress and You Me Unity
Event details: http://www.antar.org.au/dan_sultan_set_to_rock_for_recognition
Event details: http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/news/tournews/191430/dan-sultan-announces-ind...
Event details: http://www.themusicnetwork.com/music-news/artists/2012/08/22/dan-sultan-...
Event details: http://nationalcongress.com.au/congress-events/
News: http://www.australiantimes.co.uk/entertainment/music/australian-music/da...
Event: Thu 6 December 2012: Redfern, Sydney, NSW
To mark International Human Rights Day,
STICS will be holding an
NT Intervention / Stronger Futures Forum
Forum: After the NT Election:
The Struggle Against the NT Intervention
Aboriginal leaders speak out:
"Stronger Futures" means Stolen Futures
Special guest speakers:
* Rosalie Kunoth Monks &
* Amelia Pangarte Kunoth-Monks
from Utopia community, Central Australia
* Jeff McMullen AM
"Join us to hear voices in the fight for Aboriginal
rights discuss the shifting terrain in the struggle
against the NT Intervention: a new government
in the NT, community attempts to evict Intervention
and Shire bosses from their land and the fight
to stop the national expansion of income management.
All welcome."
Hosted by STICS:
Stop the Intervention Collective Sydney
Leaflet: http://stoptheintervention.org/uploads/files_to_download/Stronger-Future...
Poster: http://stoptheintervention.org/uploads/files_to_download/Stronger-Future...
Event summary: [scroll down page] http://stoptheintervention.org/
Event: 10 December 2012: various locations internationally
UN International Human Rights Day
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About WGAR News:
http://indymedia.org.au/2012/04/30/about-wgar-news-working-group-for-abo...
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WGAR: Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)
WGAR Website: http://wgar.wordpress.com/